people who want their theory straight from the hose, pure as water from a hot spring, are usually unwilling to think about the fact that this work, great though it might be, emerged out of the petty jealousies, maneuverings, and skulduggery of one little clique or another
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the worst kind of idealism, the sort of thing you employ to dupe naive Good Kids...lingo that budding smart-set PMC types grow up speaking as a second language (ideal in the tweets, pragmatic in the balance sheets). but me? study the speaker before you study the facts is my motto
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nobody says nothing for no reason, especially if there's somebody making a little clout or money off the speech act. there's always something there, and sometimes you're even close enough to these people to know what it is. but you wait to spill the tea! not me. don't care
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most of these wannabe intellectuals and theorizers, with their "what must we do now" treatises that are about as deep as a child's inflatable pool, hope you fail to recognize that they're just a bunch of one-eyed jacks. but some of us have seen the other sides of their faces
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this is an element of this intellectual production we *must* confront and engage with. the more lightweight it is, the more threadbare its content and aggressive its tone, the more we must investigate the speaker. believe me, their motives aren't so much ulterior as ne plus ultra
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